Oh, I'll vote and vote blue no matter who.
But 2024 taught me that Americans do not care. They knew who Trump was. They saw how he is president. They heard what he said he wanted to do once in office. They knew about the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership and what its plan was. And the majority of voters couldn't be bothered to vote against him.
On the Democratic side, I get the grievances, except that by not voting for the AIPAC lady, we're now watching as Israel plans to turn Gaza into a billionaire resort and just massacre the entire region. The Republicans don't have a conscience to be bargained with, while the Democrats have opinions that can evolve.
The price of eggs was an excuse. Americans voted based on vibes and racism. Not specific racism though they're being fed fear of brown immigrants, but permission to be racist. And now genocide of everyone not MAGA is in the Overton window.
Maybe all of the Republican election tampering and voter suppression shenanigans will fail to reduce the alleged blue tsunami to a blue trickle, and maybe the after-election shenanigans won't work, but that doesn't mean the Democrats are going to get full control of Congress and the Presidency in 2028. And if they do, that doesn't mean Democrats are actually going to sufficiently overhaul SCOTUS, and then ironclad elections from suppression, tampering, gerrymandering, voter caging and so on. And these things need to be done before any movement towards rebuilding regulatory institutions, soft power departments like USAID, reforming DHS or any of the other things that really need to be done.
And if all this isn't done in time, then American voters will get impatient, and follow their brainwashing to vote in oligarch puppets again. And this time the US will become a one-party state, and might even see its constitution dismantled.
So, I will vote. I think everyone absolutely needs to vote as if their lives and the lives of everyone they know depends on it. But I thought the same thing in 2024, and the constituency of the United States betrayed me. Seriously, eventually I'm going to end up on ICE's hit list, and they'll come for me. After that, they'll come for everyone else.
SCOTUS has locked federal political power in favor of MAGA. It's entirely captured. It has the capacity to nullify any or all parts of the Constitution of the United States, if they decide to do so. Expect to see carveouts of the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th amendments just the way they scalloped the 4th and 5th. We have one chance to stop them. One.
So I'm not going to be dishonest about our actual chances. I still think everyone needs to vote. I also think Americans need to organize twelve million of us behind a single manifesto, so that when we general strike or occupy Washington, we have clear and established demands, and there is clearly nothing they can do about it and stay in power.
But I don't think Americans are up to the task, even if they are skipping meals and living off ramen. Even if their family is abducted and disappeared by ICE. Even if they're choking on data center fumes. Moreover because they still believe they have to check the R to prove they're not effeminate or communist.
I'll do my diligent duty. Heck I'm looking for my place in the organized resistance. But my faith in the people of the United States is gone. I'm not going to lie about that to purport hope or optimism.